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On Friday 26 December 2008 17:22, ANDREW PRATT wrote: > Neil, > > Thanks for your comments, I will take a look at the other possibilities. Welcome to the list - and the joy of being blown off course on a regular basis! You've just re-lit my interest in low power pc's a 486 could run a small company when they came out - all them there new fangled versions of windows and linux means you can do a lot less but prettier. Anyone seen one that has solar panels and can run 24/7 in this country and respond to wireless for dumping to the central scrutiniser? Tom te tom te tom > > Andy > > > > --- On Fri, 26/12/08, Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [LUG] Single Board Computer > To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Friday, 26 December, 2008, 3:18 PM > > On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:15:31 +0000 (GMT) > > ANDREW PRATT <am.pratt469@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > > This is the first post that I have made. I have been using Linux for > > about > > three years now using Slackware and Slax. > > Fancy Debian instead? > > > I am sending this on a single board computer > > that is actually intended for > embedded applications. > > > I bought it from RS Components, it comes as a single circuit board > > approximately 90mm x 90mm, with a 133MHz fanless 486 processor and 64MB of > RAM. > > If the board has any internal storage (or can be fitted with such) - > even just an SD card, you could run Emdebian on such a machine without > an external hard drive. Things are very early stages but Emdebian Grip > is one option - the much smaller Emdebian Crush isn't available for x86 > at this time (and will take months to become available on anything > except ARM). > > > I pre-installed Slackware 11 on an old 20GB hard drive using another PC > > and transferred it to this computer. > > So what storage does the board contain? > > > The power consumption is very low, not including the monitor it takes 1.7 > > amps at 5 Volts. > > That isn't low power - that's a power-sucking-beast! ARM generally does > a lot > better - down to <1W, not >8W - even some x86 netbooks come in at > substantially less than 8W. What's it doing with all that power? Try > putting that board on a set of batteries. Ouch. > > > I have an web based application in mind for it using a PIC processor > > and the Apache web server. It has four com ports and ethernet. > > No USB? > > > I am using the Lynx command line web browser, X is a bit ambitious! > > Not that ambitious, ARM processors can handle XFCE or GPE in as much > RAM. > > > Anyone else with a similar interest? > > http://linux.codehelp.co.uk/ > > http://www.emdebian.org/ > > http://balloonboard.org/index.html > > Just a few of my similar interests. > > -- > > > Neil Williams > ============= > http://www.data-freedom.org/ > http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ > http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html